2 out of the last 3 cats that I skinned, smelled strongly of fish. Weird thing was, the river and all the ponds were froze over, I wondered if they had gotten into somebody’s gut pile from ice fishing.
I've seen fish get stuck in creeks here unable to go one way or another due to water level and then freeze into the top layer of the ice. Some of their dorsal fins were even out of the ice. Raccoons will dig through quite a bit of ice to get at those froze fish. The cats could have just come along after.